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Doria Mayberry
Private is a pornographic magazine published by the Swedish publisher and distributor Private Media Group. The magazine is known for its combination of high-quality photography and depiction of sex acts typical of hardcore pornography such as anal sex, an innovation at the time of its creation. The American pornographer Al Goldstein described it as "[the] best porno magazine in the world".[1]
The magazine was created in 1965 by the Swedish photographer Berth Milton Sr., who initially included his pornographic photographs in erotic magazines, which he distributed in his bookshop in Stockholm. He sold the first issues of his magazine himself to newspaper kiosks, since there was no distribution for such magazines.[2]
After the 1966 United States Supreme Court decision Memoirs v. Massachusetts, the prohibition of pornography in the United States was questioned for the first time. The magazine, previously distributed under the counter in the United States, has since been sold openly there and, from its ninth issue, is considered the United States' first legally distributed pornographic magazine.[3]
Since the mid-1980s, Private has been published in Barcelona, Spain, which was the second largest market for pornographic products after Germany.[2] The magazine became the best-selling pornographic magazine in the world,[4] before losing importance in the course of the digitalization of pornography in the 1990s.
Private Media Group was founded in 1991 by Berth Milton Jr. who extended the Private brand by adding web offerings to the portfolio, expanded video production and successfully took the company public.[5] The magazine Private, which forms the cornerstone of the company, continues to this day.
Partners are selected luxury travel and hospitality suppliers such as hotels and resorts, private villas, destination management companies, private yacht and jet operators and brokers, tourism boards and other exceptional experience or service providers.
Private Magazines function just like their more visible counterparts. Collaborators can see and comment on any content added to the magazine. Collaborators can also flip items of their own to the magazine either from the Web with the Flipboard Chrome extension or from the Flipboard app on any iOS or Android device.
But there are many things government does that most people would agree could be safely entrusted to the private marketplace. Case in point: the production and distribution of Michigan History magazine.
Michigan History is a state-produced bimonthly periodical, established by statute in 1913 and first printed in 1917 as a scholarly journal for the purpose of recording Michigan history for posterity. It evolved into its current magazine-style format with pictures and illustrations in 1978.
The magazine charges $16.95 for six issues annually and has nearly 34,000 paid subscribers. The cost of producing the magazine in fiscal year 1999 was just over $517,000, while the revenue generated by the magazine from subscriptions and the sale of merchandise (coffee mugs, booklets, t-shirts, etc.) exceeded $539,000.
At first glance, it appears as though the magazine is profitable enough to operate without state assistance. Unfortunately, however, the magazine is subsidized because its employees are compensated for their work from Michigan's "General Fund." The General Fund is a component of the state budget from which legislators may spend with the greatest discretion.
Richard Rosenstreter, editor of Michigan History, notes that the staff also has other duties, including the production of a newsletter, brochures, booklets, and posters. While the actual taxpayer resources for this project are comparatively small, the principle involved is large: If it is proper for the state to produce a glossy magazine to record and promote Michigan history, then what, if anything, is it not proper for government to do? Is there a point at which taxpayers and policy-makers can say, "being in this business is none of our business?"
Consider a small list of recreational and educational activities in which state and local governments regularly involve themselves: golf, water- slides and water parks, symphonies, live state theatre, professional sports, state fairs, zoos, ice arenas, tennis clubs, and, of course, history magazines. The state also competes unfairly with robust private-sector businesses by operating its own florist shops, hotel and conference centers, computer retailing businesses, sign-making agencies, optical and hearing-aid clinics, and, again, magazines.
The state used to produce Natural Resources, a publication dedicated to Michigan hunting, fishing, and other outdoors activities, in direct competition with five private outdoors magazines. Proponents of Natural Resources argued that private magazines must appeal to a large audience in order to stay in business and that reduces the type of specialty features one finds in state-subsidized magazines. By letting the state produce magazines, they argued, readers can enjoy articles on narrower topics in which few have an interest. But this is direct evidence against, not for, state involvement in the magazine business, as policy makers realized when they shed their responsibility for producing Natural Resources magazine.
The same logic applies to Michigan History. Is it not fundamentally unfair to force a majority of Michigan taxpayers to subsidize articles on the mating habits of the yellow-bellied sap sucker, for instance, when such articles appeal to only an extremely narrow audience? Should the state also produce automobile or skydiving-specific magazines? What about magazines on good parenting and housekeeping?
Apart from the fairness principle, there is another powerful argument for the state to get out of the magazine business, and that is politics. Writing in state-produced magazines is likely to be hostage to the political whims of the editor (and his board, which may be appointed by the editor). This may be the case in private magazines, but the fact that private magazines receive funding voluntarily from a wide variety of sources ensures a diversity of opinion. State-subsidized maga
zines, by contrast, may be expected to exhibit only "government-approved" views, as that is the side upon which their bread is buttered.
Finally, state involvement in recording Michigan history is unnecessary because there is no shortage of historians graduating each year from colleges and universities. Most of these men and women go on to conduct and publish research of some sort, including research on Michigan history for public and private universities, for-profit publishing companies, and nonprofit foundations for every interest group in Michigan: professional historians, casual readers, and students at every age and skill level.
Opponents of privatizing Michigan History by ending its state production outright may object that a private alternative would impose higher subscription costs on its readers. That is probably true, but the increased subscription price would only reflect the true cost of producing the magazine, to be directly borne by only those who want it.
To mark COP27 held in November 2022, the 38th issue of Private Sector & Development magazine is dedicated to climate change adaptation and presents the drivers for action of Development Finance Institutions and the private sector faced with the challenges of the climate crisis.
The 37th edition of Private Sector & Development magazine, produced with the association EDFI, gives a voice to European development finance institutions and presents their responses to the crisis linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The 36th edition of Private Sector & Development magazine is devoted to technical assistance, an instrument at the service of development commonly used by all actors (international organizations, donors, impact investors, etc.).
To mark the New Africa-France Summit in Montpellier organized in October 2021 which aimed to renew connections with Africa, this special issue of Private Sector & Development magazine explored the new entrepreneurship dynamics in Africa.
The study of reading has a long history in the digital library community, but one issue that has been largely ignored is gender. Gender is known to play a significant role in the acquisition, reading and use of print material. However, there it is unknown to what degree the influence of reading norms carries into digital reading. In this paper we examine the differences in the readership of a variety of magazines, between their print and electronic editions. The results reveal that digital reading is, in general, less gender-conforming than print reading. However, it also appears that consumption of digital editions on mobile phones reverts towards the gender stereotypes found in print. Together, this data serves to demonstrate that digital library services, including search engines, should consider the risk of reinforcing gender stereotypes that occur when reading is a public performance, and entrenching those biases when reading is done privately.
N2 - The study of reading has a long history in the digital library community, but one issue that has been largely ignored is gender. Gender is known to play a significant role in the acquisition, reading and use of print material. However, there it is unknown to what degree the influence of reading norms carries into digital reading. In this paper we examine the differences in the readership of a variety of magazines, between their print and electronic editions. The results reveal that digital reading is, in general, less gender-conforming than print reading. However, it also appears that consumption of digital editions on mobile phones reverts towards the gender stereotypes found in print. Together, this data serves to demonstrate that digital library services, including search engines, should consider the risk of reinforcing gender stereotypes that occur when reading is a public performance, and entrenching those biases when reading is done privately.
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